All I wanted was Gitea 28. Instead: Nextcloud hit EOL and needed two upgrade hops, the disk filled up mid-rebuild twice thanks to a Syncthing share I forgot existed (187GB of .stversions!), and home-manager drifted again. Just a few hurdles on what I thought would be run a couple commands before lunch...
https://blog.ppb1701.com/i-just-wanted-gitea-28-part-20-of-building-a-resilient-home-server-series
#blog #homeserver #nixos #selfhosting #gitea #nextcloud #syncthing #homemanager
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